Flesh of the gods : the ritual use of hallucinogens

by: Furst, Peter T

Publication date: 1990

Topics: Sociology, Medical / Nursing, Cultural And Social Anthropology, Drug Abuse, Rites and ceremonies, General, Anthropology - Cultural, Customs & Traditions, Hallucinogenic drugs and relig, Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience, Indians

Publisher: Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294)

Includes index

Originally published: New York : Praeger, ©1972 ; reissued with changes 1990

An overview of hallucinogens in the Western hemisphere / Richard Evans Schultes -- Tobacco and shamanistic ecstasy among the Warao Indians of Venezuela / Johannes Wilbert -- The cultural context of an aboriginal hallucinogen : Banisteriopsis Caapi / Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff -- The San Pedro cactus in Peruvian folk healing / Douglas Sharon -- To find our life : peyote among the Huichol Indians of Mexico / Peter T. Furst -- The divine mushroom of immortality ; What was the Soma of the Aryans? / R. Gordon Wasson -- Ritual use of Cannabis sativa L. : a historical-ethnographic survey / William A. Emboden, Jr. -- Tabernanthe iboga : narcotic ecstasis and the work of the ancestors / James W. Fernandez -- Hallucinogens and the shamanic origins of religion / Weston La Barre